Being an early adopter — or, at least, an organization on the cutting edge — requires a great deal of investment, but not just from a financial perspective. In fact, upfront costs are only part of th…
When Skip Sorrels, Director of Cybersecurity with Ascension Health, tells a clinician who may be frustrated with IT that he knows what they are going through, he means it. That’s because, in…
If burglars were consistently entering houses in your neighborhood though the back door, it wouldn’t make much sense to spend the majority of your home defense budget fortifying the windows. Accordin…
Cybersecurity in healthcare is at a tipping point, poised to move from the voluntary to the mandatory, although not quite yet. For now, it’s still up to organizations as to whether not they …
IT executives have always had a challenging time ensuring their users were operating securely; but since the Covid pandemic larger workforce trends have seen those challenges multiply. Those trends i…
It’s been said by many a CISO that they essentially function as the chief risk officer. What they are trying to say, of course, is that the job is all about understanding and communicating c…
It’s no secret that community hospitals face more than their share of challenges, whether it’s recruiting IT talent (and competing with larger organizations to retain them), securing data on a tight …
When Swathi West started at Summa Health in early 2023, she embarked on a 90-day assessment that included reviewing job descriptions, along with policies and standards. It’s an approach she …
Having risen through the IT ranks (often coming out of infrastructure or networking), CIOs know technology inside and out, but when they do hit the C-suite, there is another skill and relationship th…
There’s an old adage that people won’t comply with the “what” if they don’t understand the “why.” For information security professionals, communicating the ‘why’ around the need for complian…
Sure, health systems need attractive buildings, and the top physicians expect nice offices in which to work, but dollars must be found to address technical debt and the security risks that c…
It’s perhaps the ultimate case of foreshadowing.
A decade and a half ago, while working as a bedside nurse, Robbie Freeman started to become increasingly frustrated with laborious processes that took…
Since it was first introduced a year ago, generative AI has been the biggest topic in healthcare, and for good reason. The potential it has shown in improving medical education and clinical documenta…
While there’s no lack of tools to address the countless cyber challenges organizations face, there is definitely a lack of internal cyber staff at health systems available to support them. This makes…
Everyone has their number one.
Regardless of the size, scope or geographic location, every healthcare organization has one thing in common: competing priorities. Whether it’s clinical, revenue cycle,…
It’s one of the most infuriating things patients can experience during their care journeys — they’ve had an image taken (perhaps even at another unit in the hospital) and the clinician they are now i…
Post 9/11, it was a key element of messaging in New York City – if you see something, say something. The idea, of course, was that law enforcement could only do so much; but vigilance on eve…
Around five years ago, it became very clear to leadership at Doylestown Health that being able to provide top patient care and compete with other health systems in the Philadelphia area meant it was …
Most CISOs understand that one of their key phone calls after a ransomware incident will be to the FBI, but what they may not appreciate is that it shouldn’t be their first to that organizati…
One the main keys to success in any business is focusing on certain products and services to the exclusion of others – to draw a circle in the sand and say, ‘We play in these areas, and in them we wi…
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